Meet Emily Mutimer

We were lucky to catch up with Emily Mutimer recently and have shared our conversation below.

Emily, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

I think you must not worry about what other people think. I for sure have moments where the feeling creeps in, but I try to shut it down by using strategies because it’s a slippery slope leading to nothing good. A well known book titled The Artists Way by Julia Cameron helps to overcome this in different chapters, one of them is writing down all the people that support you for you. Realising how much power you have being yourself and owning what you’re passionate about helped me to focus on everything but feeling like I don’t belong. Another thing that helps is just reminding yourself why you’re in this career – because you love it.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I’m an Australian actress who plays Astrid in the TV series FLUNK and spin off feature films The Sleepover and After School, which can be found on Amazon, Tubi, Proximus, Apple TV and YouTube. The show has 453k subscribers and 194 million views just on YouTube, with the films being in the top ten LGBTQ+ films on the US streaming platform Tubi. I have always loved acting and performing when I was growing up and decided to take some classes to understand more about the industry, which helped me gain confidence to put myself out there. I play lead role in Australian dark comedy pilots Bunchie (directed by the talented John Orscik) and Bongrats (Guerrilla Renegade Productions). Both are in post-production stages, with a sold out cinema release of (over 200 seats) premiere for Bongrats held this November 2024 where i’ll part take in a cast Q&A after the screening. I have also acted in many Australian short films, ‘$86,400’ which premiered at the Peninsular film festival in 2020, as well as lead role in horror film Slender Demoniac. I play the lead role in short film On the Seventh Day I Was Late to Spin Class which had a screening at AAFTA festival, where I won the peoples choice award for best actress. I also starred in a pilot called It’s Not How it Sounds with some amazing independent filmmakers. What I find exciting about the industry is it’s full of surprises which make you think and act quick. I love the challenge and new adventures every day.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I think the three skills that help me on my journey as an actress is being open to learning more, it keeps me open minded and less likely to judge something when it feels uncomfortable. Having resilience and determination when it gets tough and that can mean realising you’re not your ‘bad days’ or the negative thoughts that creep in, it helps me to keep positive and stay motivated. The last skill is to be honest about everything, honest to your artist friends about the highs and lows in your career so you can have a real authentic relationship and community that supports you. It really helps to have awesome friends by your side!

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

Well I for sure think a balance of both is great. Some weeks I focus on what I already know and put that to action, like an acting technique I’ve studied for years and then put into practice for an audition. Other times I feel like mixing it up and investing in areas that need investing in or that I thought was a strength but I learnt something new from being open to making the so called strength even stronger. I think it’s always going to be a continuum, improve something then it becomes a strength – a cool cycle. This helped me on set in horror short film Hide and Seek, I was learning a new acting technique at the time (Laban) and felt it was necessary to improve the skills required, which helped me during my scenes and made me feel more confident.

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